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Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah for the Northern District of Texas made the announcement Wednesday. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested in April after he tried to buy an explosive device from an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation employee in Fort Worth. Pendley pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hal R. Ray Jr. According to court documents, Pendley admitted to disclosing his plan to a confidential source in January via an encrypted messaging application. In late February, he sent this same source a list of data center addresses, noting that if they were destroyed it would �...

Texas man pleads guilty in plot to attack Amazon data servers Michael Williams, The Dallas Morning News A Wichita Falls man pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to attack an Amazon Web Services data center — an act he hoped would “kill off about 70% of the Internet,” federal authorities said. Seth Aaron Pendley pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious attempt to destroy a building with an explosive. He faces between five and 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in federal court in October, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas. A ...

Federal authorities say a Texas man who was charged for threatening to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia was apolitical until he lost his job and had plenty of time to research political nefarious conspiracies.

Top 10 Times People Tried To Shut Down The Internet The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. Since Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web in the late 1980s, there have been numerous attempts to shut down the internet. Some of these attacks were carried out by coordinated military groups and governments in a bid for political control. Others consisted of one irate man ripping the wires out of a service box. Fro...

Feds: Man charged with threatening Amazon was radicalized April 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who was charged for threatening to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia was apolitical until he lost his job and had plenty of time to research nefarious political conspiracies, federal authorities said. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was ordered to be held without bond on Wednesday by a federal magistrate judge in Fort Worth. He was charged April 9 with attempting to destroy a building with an explosive. Pendley’s detention hearing Wednesday provided new insigh...